US Military Aid To Ukraine Exceeds The Costs Of Afghanistan
By Tyler Durden Ukraine receives the most military aid from the United States: Since the beginning of the war and as of Jan. 15, 2023, $46.6 billion…
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US Judge Says Families of 9/11 Victims Not Entitled to Afghan Central Bank Funds
By Dave DeCamp A US judge has determined that families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks are not entitled to Afghan central…
Tracking C.I.A.-Backed “Zero Units” in Afghanistan
By ProPublica In 2019, reporter Lynzy Billing returned to Afghanistan to research the murders of her mother and sister nearly 30 years earlier. Instead, in…
6 Million Afghans Facing Famine as US Refuses To Return $7 Billion in Seized Funds
By Brett Wilkins “Biden should immediately reverse his executive order,” said one humanitarian. “With millions of Afghans impoverished and starving, the U.S. must return to…
Afghanistan Facing “Total Collapse” as Biden Refuses to Release Central Bank Assets
By Jake Johnson An international aid group warned Wednesday that Afghanistan is on the brink of complete collapse as the Biden administration and European governments…
If We Call Russia’s Invasion a War Crime, What Do We Call What the US is Doing to Iraq & Afghanistan?
By Matt Agorist For decades, the US and its Western allies have been violently and frequently meddling in the Middle East. Beginning with the clandestine…
US Afghanistan Sanctions Are Starving 1 Million Children To Death
By Robert Inlakesh According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), one million Afghan children are now at risk of acute malnutrition leading to death…
US to Offer “Condolence Payments” to Relatives of 10 Civilians Killed in Drone Strike
By Andrea Germanos The Pentagon said Friday that the U.S. would issue “condolence payments” to relatives of 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, killed in…
Lessons From History: Afghanistan and the Dangerous Afterlives of Identifying Data
By Matthew Guariglia As the United States pulled its troops out of Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation, byproducts of the prolonged deployment took on new…
US Drone Attack Kills at Least 10 Afghan Civilians—Including 6 Children
By Jake Johnson A U.S. drone strike purportedly targeting a suspected ISIS-K vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan killed at least 10 members…
As the Left and Right Argue Over Talking Points, They’re Missing The Real Lesson From Afghanistan
Op-Ed by Don Via, Jr. No matter how many times a commentary is provided on the subject, it is still nauseating to witness fervent tribalism…
What Can We Learn About Covid Tyranny From Australia And Afghanistan?
Op-Ed by Brandon Smith Despotic people tend to telegraph their future actions like inexperienced fighters tend to telegraph their punches; it’s not as if the…
The Afghanistan Exit Debacle: Incompetence, Distraction Or Something More Sinister?
Op-Ed by Brandon Smith My first instinct has been to ignore the circus surrounding Biden’s apparent bungle of the troop exit from Afghanistan, primarily because…
Fearing Taliban Purge, Afghan Citizens Scramble To Delete Digital History, Evade Biometrics
It is now amply demonstrated that Technocrat tools of total surveillance can be used for unspeakable evil. Afghans who were lured into surveillance systems by…